Lowe's Clearing Out Orchids

[FSUOrchids]

For the record I was able to get a bagged Vanda at a discount at Home Depot after I talked to one of the employees.

[jesscorine]

Originally Posted by FSUOrchids

For the record I was able to get a bagged Vanda at a discount at Home Depot after I talked to one of the employees.

My HD literally only has the awful looking HUGE blue dyed phals...a few run-of-the-mill phals too. Not even any mini phals. I will not return. I went to a third Lowe's yesterday and they had less clearance, more nice ones, and more bagged ones. I think their staff is more caring of their plants (and it looked like a new shipment...mostly still tall-bagged blooming phals).

[Alla]

A NOID phal from lowes for $.75 bought after Christmas is in bloom. Also Lowe's Maxillaria just done blooming and I have a couple of Lowes' cattleyas and a Brassavola that are doing quite well. Now one of my rescue Lowes' phals bloomed with the really oddly mutilated shaped flowers- I suspect it has a virus. I gifted it to the person that had no other plants. I would suggest to be on a lookout for the viruses. While they probably spray expensively for pests, virus is harder to ID.